Sample One:

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Sample One

                      Down the Rabbit-Hole


  Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
on the bank, and of having nothing to do.  Once or twice she had
peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book,"
thought Alice "without pictures or conversation?"

  So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,
for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether
the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble
of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White
Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

(Text Courtesy of The Gutenberg Project)

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Sample Two:

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<TITLE>Sample Two</TITLE>

<H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Down the Rabbit-Hole</H3>

<P>
  Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
on the bank, and of having nothing to do:  once or twice she had
peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book,"
thought Alice "without pictures or conversation?"
</P>
<P>
  So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,
for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether
the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble
of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White
Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
</P>
<I>(Text Courtesy of The Gutenberg Project)</I>

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HTML Standards

HTML has Standard Specifications. Tim Berners-Lee originated HTML, and currently sits as director of the World Wide Web Consortium. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a group of people made up of organizations and corporations with an interest in the World Wide Web. The W3C is a repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and users and promotes standards including the HTML standard 4.0. You can visit W3C on the Web at www.w3c.org to keep up with the evolution of the Web and its technologies.

Summary

HTML tags provide formatting information to Web browsers.

HTML tags are delimited with angle brackets. Some contain forward slashes. Some contain options, parameters, and arguments.

HTML tag attributes are options that are embedded in HTML tags that offer some enhancements or effects on Web page content.

HTML controls where formats occur. The browser controls how those formats are expressed.

You can find the current HTML standard specifications at www.w3c.org.

Test Yourself
Which of the following are valid HTML tags?

• <P>
• <H3 ALIGN=CENTER
• </I>
• /TITLE>

Predict how the following HTML would display:

    We are such stuff<P>as dreams are made on
    and our<P>little life is rounded with a sleep.